Clemens Meyer: Die Projektoren - 38th Freiburg Literature Talk: Reading and discussion with Andreas Platthaus

From Leipzig to Belgrade, from the GDR to the People's Republic of Yugoslavia, from screen spectacles to adventure novels: an epic about Europe's crises and the art of storytelling. Clemens Meyer's long-awaited new novel "Die Projektoren" (S. Fischer, 2024) is a fast-paced and unsparing account of our present, which is being shattered by the past. And about incomparable characters: in the Velebit Mountains, a former partisan experiences the adventurous filming of the Winnetou films. Decades later, the brutal battles of the Yugoslavian wars take place in precisely these places - in the midst of it all, a group of young right-wing radicals from Dortmund experience the futility of their ideology. Meanwhile, in Leipzig, the texts of a former patient are discussed at a conference in a psychiatric clinic. In an interview with Andreas Platthaus (FAZ), the author reveals how all these threads come together.
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Photo: © Gaby Gerster

Sponsors: Cultural Office of the City of Freiburg, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg, Sparkasse Freiburg-Nördlicher Breisgau, Guzzoni-Federer-Stiftung, kindly supported by jos fritz bookshop and Park Hotel Post

Date: 8.11.2024, 19:30
Venue: Literaturhaus Freiburg, Bertoldstraße 17
Admission: 11/7 euros

Literature talk
Literaturhaus